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Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:26:09 +0100
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On Sat, 28 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 12:23:12 +0100, D wrote:
>
>> But if you put out a small salt stone, I'm certain they would stop
>> gnawing at other things?
>
> That is one recommendation for homeowners with a porky problem. They don't
> get around too much. The is a nature trail with markers for the points of
> interest that's adjacent to a pasture where there is a salt block. Too far
> to walk so they eat the markers.

They seem to be very set in their ways. No chance for diplomacy? ;)

> I'd worked on the trail in the '80s and made markers by slicing fence
> posts at a diagonal and routing the numbers on the face. Being untreated
> wood they eventually rotted and were replaced with the plywood markers.
> After the porkies chewed them off some were replaced by what looks like a
> plastic composite. It will be interesting to see if they last.
>
>